Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow?

Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by msluyter on Sunday February 20, 2011 @10:39AM (#2242055)

The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by dgallagher on Sunday February 20, 2011 @12:35PM (#2242399)

Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side (spaced a little bit away from the "link"). That makes it pretty hard to accidentally press one when you mean the other.

EDIT (example): http://dave-gallagher.net/pics/hnVote.gif

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by T-hawk on Sunday February 20, 2011 @01:15PM (#2242565)

> Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side

I'm seconding that suggestion. It's the minimal possible coding workload, and solves the problem instantly for all time.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by moe on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:11PM (#2242872)

So, then the people with the fat fingers will downvote whenever they try to click the 'link'?

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by T-hawk on Sunday February 20, 2011 @05:54PM (#2243416)

Good point. Maybe put downvote between "X points" and "by"? Gives unclickable buffer space on each side of the arrow.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by makecheck on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:48PM (#2243013)

Might want the arrows side-by-side, and just further apart. To me, the separate down-triangle in your screenshot almost looks "menu like" and may occasionally make me hit it for that reason.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by saurik on Sunday February 20, 2011 @04:32PM (#2243163)

I find that the key problem is that the reply on the parent comment is right next to the upvote on a child, so I often find myself accidentally upvoting responses to things I want to reply to.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by ronnier on Sunday February 20, 2011 @11:12AM (#2242163)

You can use my http://ihackernews.com which works great for mobile devices.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by itsnotvalid on Sunday February 20, 2011 @12:18PM (#2242354)

http://www.icombinator.net can't vote, which is not as useful.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by onik69 on Sunday February 20, 2011 @08:39PM (#2243865)

Thanks - that's very cool. I'm new here. What are some other cool sites that I can use to access this site?

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